Word: buying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stayed in New York only long enough to gather supplies and buy a bus ticket, and then I was on the rolling behemoth that would not stop until it crossed the continent, even if Greyhound did change drivers every five hours...
...first, the flap seemed to have some of the ingredients of a first-class scandal. The evidence seemed to suggest that Financier Robert Lee Vesco had masterminded a well-funded campaign to buy influence from some of the President's advisers. Vesco's purpose: to get them to call off the Justice Department's attempt to extradite him from Costa Rica, where he had lived in exile for six years to escape prosecution for fraud. But as more details emerged last week, one critical thing was missing: any evidence that the President or his aides had done anything for Vesco...
...been divided between so-called verligte (enlightened) and verkrampte (narrow-minded) elements, though these days it tends to break down more between younger and older Afrikaners, farmers and city dwellers. If the choice is for a verligte approach, South Africa?and the West?might yet be able to buy a little time to try to salvage a peaceable future in the region. If the verkrampte forces prevail, the confrontation between the U.N. and South Africa could come within months. In that event, the U.S. and Britain will have to join in economic sanctions or see the total collapse...
...backed International Court of Justice opinion made it illegal for the corporations of U.N. member nations to operate in South Africa. This legal development evidently did not bother the financial wizards on Boston's Federal Street who invest Harvard's money. Harvard did not buy its millions in AMAX stock until after the international court had declared the firm's Namibian operations illegal...
...this early in the night, followed my hand as it pulled out the reporter's pad, and then narrowed. "Hey, pal, no quotes, okay? We're all friends here tonight." A simian arm wrapped around my shoulders and pulled me into a fraternal hug; the buddy offered to buy me a drink, accepted my refusal as more sincere than I intended it, and vanished into the crowd. Not quite friends...